No matter your age, seeing a dentist twice a year can help you track and maintain your dental health. It cannot be understated how critical regular dental visits are for your oral health. Most dental issues happen unnoticed over the course of months to years. Decay often does not provide obvious symptoms and what might
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Root canal treatments can save teeth. A long time ago, if dental decay spread into the root of a tooth the only solution was to have the tooth pulled (usually after the patient started to experience severe toothaches and pain). The root canal procedure was created to remove decay from the root of a tooth,
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If you recently were told you will need oral surgery for the first time, you probably will have many questions. And while the best source for answers will always be your dental team, it can always be helpful to get some general guidelines in regards to preparing for your dental visit or for your post-care.
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You might have heard somewhere that the dentist is more important for kids than adults, or that children are more vulnerable to dental issues than adults. While it is true that dental visits are extremely important for kids especially when tracking the development of their teeth, that does not make the dentist unimportant for adults.
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If there is one thing you might be afraid of hearing at the dentist it is the words “root canal”. For patients who have never had a root canal, they might have some anxiety or fears about the procedure. Unfortunately, root canals have often been depicted on TV and in movies as one of the
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Full mouth reconstruction or full mouth restoration is often a term that refers to a group of dental treatments that can be used together to help restore someone’s oral health. Similarly, smile makeovers refer to a combination of cosmetic treatments that focus mostly on how a smile looks. Full mouth reconstruction is often recommended for
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A dental emergency is any dental problem that requires immediate attention. When thinking about dental issues you can break them into categories. First and foremost, there are some issues that require immediate attention like damage to a tooth/gums or a lost filling/crown/bridge. There are other issues that might require a dental visit in the near
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Decades ago, if infection spread deep into a tooth, the best solution would have been a tooth extraction. This would both relieve the pain that a patient might be feeling because of the infection and also prevent the infection from damaging the gums and other teeth. Fortunately dental advancements made it possible to save a
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One of the things no one wants to hear during a dental check-up is that they have a dental cavity. Cavities are one of the most common dental ailments. They are common symptom of dental decay and often precede worse dental issues including the need for root canals or tooth extraction if they are not
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